Golam Mustofa Sarowar

3 results arranged by date

"Bangladeshi democracy [may be] doomed to more of the same,"
International
Crisis Group wrote in a recent commentary. They are describing a
longstanding pattern of antagonism between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Awami
League and the opposition Bangladesh National Party (BNP), which the Crisis
Group describes as "a pernicious cycle of zero-sum politics." If the political
situation descends into unrest, journalists covering it will suffer.

On February 11, two Bangladeshi television
journalists, Meherun Runi and her husband Golam Mustofa Sarowar, were murdered
in their Dhaka home. Their 5-year-old son found their
bodies. No arrests have yet been made and no motive has been publicly disclosed,
although police claim they know why the couple was killed. Journalists have
plenty of reason to be skeptical, and they staged a nationwide strike today to
call attention to the case.

Tags:

New York, February 13, 2012--The
Committee to Protect Journalists mourns the death of two TV journalists in
Dhaka and calls on Bangladeshi authorities to act speedily to bring the
perpetrators to justice.